Many years ago, before marrying Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla Bruni lived a love story with Louis Bertignac. The star musician, co-founder of the rock group Telephone, opens up about their relationship in his autobiography called nice little story (ed. Le Cherche-Midi) and whose publication is scheduled for April 28, 2022. In the meantime, the ex-coach of The Voice (TF1) makes rare secrets about his relationship with the pretty brunette in the columns of the magazine Paris Matchon newsstands this Thursday, April 21, 2022.
“I hope she will forgive me for this confession“, he launches first, specifying that this story with Carla Bruni “lasted from 1986 to 1990, with ups and downs“. Four years during which the model and the musician have shared so many things. Except love. “Even though we lived together, I wasn’t really in love with her. And she was never crazy about me, far from ithe confesses. I think she would have liked to fall in love with me because I was a rock guitarist in a famous band, but she didn’t believe it more than that. Me, I knew that I was not in love with her. Which is even worse.“
Carla Bruni and Louis Bertignac, from love to friendship
Years later, the duo met again, this time on an artistic project. “When I make his record, twelve years later, water has flowed under the bridgeshe remembers, he who produced Carla Bruni’s first album, Someone told mein 2002. We had met again, she had improved as she got older. She ain’t been a bitch to me.“And today, Louis Bertignac and Carla Bruni remained on very good terms.”This is my friend. We talk, we discuss, she is the godmother of my eldest daughter“, enthuses the ex-acolyte of Jean-Louis Aubert, Corine Marienneau and Richard Kolinka, all members of the Telephone group.
Their relationship took yet another turn in 2008. The year Carla Bruni celebrated her marriage to Nicolas Sarkozy, then in full presidential office, but also the year Louis Bertignac was left by Julie, his companion at the time and mother of his two daughters Lola (18) and Lili (14). It is then that he can count on the support of the newlyweds. “They will change my mind. Me, the poor dumped guy, not far from committing suicide because he loses his children, finds himself at Cap Nègre with the President of the Republic ! It was lunar…“, he says.
If Carla Bruni is the happy mother of Aurélien Enthoven (20 years old), born of his past relationship with the essayist Raphaël Enthoven, and Giulia (10 years old), fruit of his love with Nicolas Sarkozy, Louis Bertignac has also rebuilt his life. After breaking up with Julie, he found love in the arms of Laëtitia, 34 years his junior, whom he married in July 2021, five years after welcoming their son Jack.
The interview with Louis Bertignac can be found in full in Paris Matchon newsstands this Thursday, April 21, 2022.